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Amartya Sen - Nobel Prize economist

Hydraulic Modeling of Water Supply Networks

Industrial Automation, Instrumentation & Process Control Systems

Shifting to VFD from Conventional Starters

Measuring the True Performance Of VFDs

Water Industry Trends in the Southern USA

Marine Pollution and Associated Funding

US Water Industry Trends Mid-Atlantic/New England Regions

Water Industry Trends in the Midwest/Great Lakes Region

Water Purification Design for Hippo Rollers Wins Awards

Modern Electroplating Wastewater Neutralization

Removal of Heavy Metals From Wastewater Using Electromagnetic Nano-Mills

Methods for Wastewater Treatment

Wastewater Treatment Unit to Remove Hexavalent Chromium and Other Heavy Metals

Taking the Measure of Ghana’s Watersheds: a Critical Requirement for Sustainable Intensification

Material Handling That Goldilocks Would Like (VIDEO)

Watergrabbing - A Story of Water

What's in the Name: Ultrafine Bubbles or Nano Bubbles?

Water a Burden or a Blessing to Women

Cultivate Attractive Lettuce With No More Tipburn

History of a Polder

Air Valves in Pipelines (Part I – Air in Water!)

Six Steps Closer to a Sustainable World

Saving Princeville: Resilient Design and Planning in the American Rural South

30 Interesting Water Safety and Management Blogs

10 Best YouTube Videos About Water and Wastewater Management and Treatment

Changing of the Climate

Indicators of Performance of Irrigation Projects

Water News and Updates You Should Not Miss!

What Are The Resilient Cities Examples Around The World?

DP World to Assist Somaliland WASH Sector

New Model for M.Sc. / M. Tech. and PhD Thesis in Colleges

Climate Risks Are #1 Threat to Global Economy

10 Water News Everybody's Talking About - November Overview of News You Can't Afford to Miss!

Hitchhikers Guide to the Water Sector - the Best Kept Secrets are Often Reserved for the Locals

By Influencing the Water, We Change the Climate

Hide and Seep: Citizen Science and the Fresh Water Cycle

Designing the Financial Bridge for Water Infrastructure: Legislation Section

Concept Note on Cost Recovery in Indian Water Sector

Moving Ahead on Blended Financing Mechanisms and Pricing Water in India

Clouds with a Silver Lining: Seeding Storms to Boost the Colorado River

Lessons From Leonardo: What Leonardo da Vinci Can Teach Us About Water

Is Help on the Way for Sierra Leone?

Q4 2017 Regional Roundup: Part 1/3

Q4 2017 Regional Roundup: Part 2/3

Q4 2017 Regional Roundup: Part 3/3

Water Poverty in Africa

Dust Up: The Growing Problem Affecting Snowpack and Water Supply

How Many More Years Will It Be One of WEF’s Top Global Risks Before the World Starts Valuing Water?

206 people. 54 households. 1 AguaClara Hydrodoser.

Day Zero Looms for Cape Town as South African City Prepares to Turn Off Taps

Is Cryptocurrency Going Down the Drain?

Federal Court Upholds Protection for Arctic Seals Under the Endangered Species Act—Citing Climate Change

10 Water News Everybody's Talking About - February Overview of News You Can't Afford to Miss!

Somaliland Participated the 3rd African Climate Resilient Summit (ACRIS III) in Marrakech, Morocco

Does a Changing Climate Require a Change in Vocabulary?

Vacuum Distillation System for Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Wetlands Experts See Nature-based Solutions (NBS) as a Smart Strategy for Sustainable Water Futures

10 Water News Everybody's Talking About - Overview of MARCH NEWS You Can't Afford to Miss!

Some Farmers Are Trying to Prepare for Climate Change But Getting Pushback from Neighbors, Families—and the Government

Where Did the Water Go?

7 Ideas on How Knowledge Can Help Us Achieve Universal Access to Safely-managed Drinking Water and Sanitation

What Abbott and Costello Can Teach Us About Water

10 Water News Everybody's Talking About - Overview of APRIL NEWS You Can't Afford to Miss!

Wastewater Heat Recovery – How to Save Money

Sleeping Like a Log? What Trees Do—and Don't Do at Night

An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos: Use Your Resources to Protect Our Most Precious Resource

Gaming Gravity: How Farmers and Ranchers Are Using the Flow of Water to Power Operations on Their Land

10 Water News Everybody's Talking About - Overview of JUNE News You Can't Afford to Miss!

The Threat to Drinking Water from Wildfires

The Water Industry Wants You: Careers in Water are a New Way for Veterans to Serve Our Country

10 Water News Everybody's Talking About - Overview of JULY News You Can't Afford to Miss!

Flight Plan: How Unmanned Aircraft Are Helping Scientific Research Take Off

10 Water News Everybody's Talking About - Overview of AUGUST News You Can't Afford to Miss!

10 Water News from September Every Water Expert Should Be Aware Of!

Girl Genius: This 12-year-old Invented a Device to Detect Lead in Water—And She's Just Getting Started

10 Water News from October Every Water Expert Should Be Aware Of!

10 Water News from November Every Water Expert Should Be Aware Of!

Hydropower Without Dams—How Utilities Are Tapping into Energy They Once Not Only Wasted But Paid to Lose

Water Use Efficiency in Irrigated Agriculture

10 Water News from December Every Water Expert Should Be Aware Of!

Women Are the Secret Weapon for Better Water Management

Going, Going ...Gone? The Most Abundant Tree in Hawaii Is Dying and There's No Cure in Sight

Accidents Waiting to Happen—The Toxic Threats to Our Rivers, Lakes, and Streams

In-toxic-ated: A New Study Finds the Weedkiller Glyphosate in Major Brands of Beer and Wine

10 Essential Industry News from February Every Water Expert Should Read

The Irony of an Electric Car Named "Tesla" (And What a Small Town in Colorado Had to Do With It)

And I Quote "To Know Water is To Love Water"

To Sustainability and Beyond: Here are Essential Industry News from March Every Water Expert Should Read

Here are Essential Industry News Every Water Expert Should Read This Spring

Europe bans single-use plastics to reduce plastic soup

Major Cities in the West Are Paying Residents to Take Out Turf to Save Water—With Two Notable Exceptions

Damned from the Start—Many U.S. Reservoirs Could Be Rendered Useless—And That Was Part of the Plan

The Dam Nobody Wants Just Won’t Go Away

A giant has fallen - RIP Arjen

UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

British Water pledges to improve gender equality

All sectors need to pull together, says EA chair

British Water launches micropollutants technical group

Ofwat chief urges suppliers to “be assertive”

Legionella Management in Building Water Systems. The Role of Chlorine Products

Statement from British Water chief executive Lila Thompson on the Environment Agency’s National Framework for Water Resources

Water industry pledges support for supply chain

Water-Peace-Political Stability Nexus

British Water welcomes workforce planning report

The Pivot Project: Post-COVID 19 Futures. We are seeking your insights from the Water Sector

Podcast highlights support offered to water retailers

Report puts suppliers at heart of innovation

Australia, it's time to talk about our water emergency

Association offers help sourcing PPE for water workers

Partnership will deliver water innovation for Australia and NZ

BlueTech Research and Imagine H2O strengthen partnership

Updated wastewater treatment guidance gains regulatory support

Supply chain highlights need for innovation progress

Supporting women’s water careers in uncertain times

Czech town welcomes wastewater treatment installation

The power of DNA to optimize detection and control of biological processes in water & wastewater systems

Remote access gave utilities Covid-19 advantage, says review

Paving the way for greater inclusion in water

Delivering essential training in a digital landscape

Be bold to cut pollutions, water companies urged

British Water joins mentoring programme supporting women

Supply chain survey will assess Covid-19 impact

157 Pinks and Blues When Your Pinks Don’t Turn…

Leak loggers support emergency effort in Beirut

A collaborative approach to zero pollution

UK-India water MoU offers great boost to trade

Scale-up data technology, water companies urged

MWH Treatment to play key role in Thames Capital Delivery programme

Water documentary goes mainstream

Tertiary treatment success leads to equipment purchase

Ovarro collaborates on major smart network trial

Ovarro leak technology supports WaterAid in Nepal

Survey reveals Covid-19 impact on water supply chain

Pioneering water projects celebrated by inaugural Lighthouse Awards

Wastewater technician training continues despite challenging year

Ovarro completes acquisition of Datawatt

Ovarro appoints new UK sales director

British Water adds voice to diversity campaign

Wastewater compliance maintained at locked down holiday park

Open data can open up opportunity

Biosolids – “never ending problem” or increasing opportunity?

Ovarro completes acquisition of ControlPoint

Setting digital as the default for water – a Q&A with Clare Kovacs

Cloud-based apps mitigate water management risk

Collaborative leakage project recognised by water sector

Innovation successes highlighted at water sector briefing

Food & beverage industry urged to adopt water best practice

Preventing rising main pollutions through machine learning

British Water and the Water Industry Forum confirm merger plans

Public debate on water pollutions “oversimplified”

Enabling optimum use of existing water data

Water industry “shifting to outcome-based strategy”

Water company performance survey seeks supplier views

Research shows phosphate removal requires holistic approach

Ofwat chief highlights priorities at water gathering

Future of urban water and wastewater management: views on Singapore International Water Week

Party has led people to prosperity

What the coronavirus vaccine roll-out says about innovation in an age of geopolitical rivalry

Singapore’s two-front battle with water security and climate change

Some way to go before China can become carbon neutral by 2060

Catch the rain: Another feel good plan

Water as an Engine for Regional Development

How prepared is Singapore for the next flash flood?

How India’s civil society can shape the country’s water policy

Managing floods in a changing climate: Preventing disaster in China’s south

China can water down impact of floods

India can learn from China to clean its urban air and help lead the world to a brighter future

China's water revolution

The Evolution of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility

Understanding Emergent Participation Practices in Water Governance

The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements

Asia’s failed resilience and grim water future

Talking trash: No time to waste

An Assessment of the 2015–2017 Drought in Windhoek

The Role of Hydropower in South Asia’s Energy Future

Water Reuse in Singapore: The New Frontier in a Framework of a Circular Economy?

Bringing life to urban sprawl: The importance of green space initiatives

How COVID-19 heightens water problems

Potable water reuse: The next megatrend?

Strategic Foresight to Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development Goals

Contributions of Recycled Wastewater to Clean Water and Sanitation Sustainable Development Goals

Government initiatives may dovetail with companies’ sustainability reporting

Effective Transboundary Aquifer Areas: An Approach for Transboundary Groundwater Management

Climate change and national security: The rules of foreign policy are changing

Drink More Recycled Wastewater

India’s Development Cooperation in Bhutan’s Hydropower Sector: Concerns and Public Perceptions

Water Security, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development

How to Make Water Issues Matter to World Leaders

Any Progress Towards Sustainable Development or at Least Sustained Development?

Communications on Technological Innovations: Potable Water Reuse

Water Demand Framework and Water Development: The Case of China

Has the well of good ideas and public policy on water run dry?

Solving the world’s potability problems

What Made Singapore Tick: Soft Options and Hard Rules

Flood Disaster Prevention: Lessons From Tokyo

Water Efficiency Policy: A Technological High-water Mark? Singapore and Water Efficiency Innovation

Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis

Managing Urban Waters in Africa: Challenges Ahead

Towards Global Water Security: A Departure from the Status Quo?

Assessing Global Water Megatrends

Cities Thirsting for Water

Transboundary Aquifers: Mexico and USA - Identification and Categorization

Commentary: Singapore’s Water Story Underscores the Value of Preparedness

The Slow Drip of Poor Water Policy

Climate change, extreme weather events and the future of humankind

COP26, climate change and human development

From poverty to prosperity, China’s century

How Singapore’s water management has become a global model for how to tackle climate crisis

Clarifying a confusion of tongues

Water Is Life

The Age of Aquarius

CeC: contaminants of emerging concern - Research in Holland

Shallow Aquifer - Weakening Foundation

Free Water for India

India’s unsustainable urban water management

Cool ideas vital to coping with heat waves

Rethinking Scotland’s water management

Hydropower propels China’s climate action

Hydropower in the Energy Transition and Managing Extreme Hydrological Events in China

Water Parliament

Water Bodies & Indian Tradition

Save Tree Save Water

River Front Water & Human Development

Natural Rainwater Saving Bodies

Spiral